16385 still has a taskbar higlight glitch

[Ekhaatvensters]

Can't replicate that at all and never seen it. GFX driver or mouse driver issue?

It's not that easy to see and as we've established it's impossible to just replicate with any precision. I was actually going to make a thread about this as it happened to me for the first time after a few months on build 7068.

With the amount of people reporting it I doubt it's any specific driver. This looks quite obviously like a bug in the OS if you ask me.

I'm not that impressed that it will most likely still be in the RTM. Around the time that it happened I also noticed a lot more taskbar preview windows getting "stuck" after you move the mouse away from them as well as the tooltip for an inactive taskbar icon sticking in the same way the highlighter does. Do any of you running the RTM-ish builds get these symptoms too with this bug?

[Lee G. Veteran]

Tried all the hints about speed of mouse movement, still cant replicate this issue

Same here (7600).

[vask]

Happened to me once or twice before 7264 builds. After that though, never had any more of these bugs and I'm using Windows 7 exclusively. What is your graphics card and what driver are you running? Make sure it is an updated one and not the one included in the build.

It is not graphics card specific for me. Saw it on all my systems (intel/ati/nvidia) at least once. Though only runnning build 7600 16385 on my notebook for now and it happened in just the same way as on older builds. So, naturally I expect all my other systems to still have this bug in this build.

[Menge]

It happens at random for me as well. For instance: my mouse is nowhere in the taskbar in the picture below, yet the Pidgin icon remains highlighted as if my mouse was on it and the current window is Thunderbird.

[ilovetech]

i think lot of people are facing his bug & it definitely is not a driver issue. the problem is that this issue occurs randomly & is non reproducible what ever we do to reccur it. it is with taskbar itself i believe coz the problem goes away at restart of explorer.

[userid]

How can they call this build golden code when obviously it is flawed, when they failed to remedy this obvious error what other serious flaws have they overlooked.

[Jygoro]

It happened to me once in three months (taskbar thumbnail previews dissapears too). But the problem it's gone if I open a program with middle click, on IE for example. Also if I unlock and lock again the taskbar or killing the explorer process.

My graphics card is an ATI Radeon 9600 and the drivers are the same from the Windows 7 DVD so I doubt it's a drivers bug.

[hdood]

Flawed logic, userid. The reason why minor bugs like this are ignored is so resources can be focused on fixing serious bugs. It's basic triage. Only those missing an arm and leg will get treated at this point, the rest will have to wait.

[Argi]

How can they call this build golden code when obviously it is flawed, when they failed to remedy this obvious error what other serious flaws have they overlooked.

It's not uncommon for minor bugs to be pushed back to later updates when the development focus is on getting blockers fixed for release.

[Pikey]

How can they call this build golden code when obviously it is flawed, when they failed to remedy this obvious error what other serious flaws have they overlooked.

Only un-confirmed sources are calling it the finished article though .. let's wait for Microsoft for the real thing.

[+DKAngel Subscriber²]

i cant replicate it on rc1, no matter how hard i try and its been installed and run on my main pc since the rc came out

[YouWhat]

its not a bug

attached above is my taskbar as currently running with "The bug" as some of you put it;

Opera is the currently selected window (On main display)

Outlook is minimised

RDC Is running on another monitor (I am running extended desktop display and RDC exclusively has that monitor to itself)

WLM Is running minimised.

So as you all can see, there is no bug as such. As i see it, the only thing that can be causing this is programs to not be closing down correctly so the system thinks they are still running in background.

[KeeperOfThePizza]

I thought that was fixed since like the 7000 Beta.....I've stuck by the RC and haven't had any issues.

[Menge]

its not a bug

attached above is my taskbar as currently running with "The bug" as some of you put it;

Your taskbar is NOT showing the bug. All your programs are running and minimised or focused.

On our screenshots, there are running programs, focused programs and programs that look as if the mouse was still hovering them. The ones with the mouse hovering ARE the bug.

[nyolc8]

It happened two times for me, on different builds. (don't remember the build numbers)

[vask]

its not a bug

attached above is my taskbar as currently running with "The bug" as some of you put it;

Opera is the currently selected window (On main display)

Outlook is minimised

RDC Is running on another monitor (I am running extended desktop display and RDC exclusively has that monitor to itself)

WLM Is running minimised.

So as you all can see, there is no bug as such. As i see it, the only thing that can be causing this is programs to not be closing down correctly so the system thinks they are still running in background.

What you wrote has nothing to do with the bug people are experiencing.

[Inctye]

It's happened to me a few times. It really bugs me. It seems to fix itself if you change your taskbar icon size to small then set it back.

Yeah, that is why they call it a bug in the first place. :laugh:

This happened once in a while in some of the earlier leaked builds, but have not seen it once in 7600-16385. Never really figured out how to replicate the bug, but it seems like it might only happen when your computer is crawling and doing a lot of work. Could be graphics related. Hard to say but it seem fixed by now.

[UncleSpellbinder]

Never seen that happen on any build :/

+1

[Jygoro]

Very difficult for Microsoft to fix this. I can't reproduce this bug when I want, it simply happens.

[beatmztr]

Why are you guys hovering over icons on your taskbar if you are not going to do anything other then stop hovering over them?

I?m am going to take a wild guess and say 99,9% of windows 7 users will ever notice this bug without being told about it and they trying to reproduce it

[WelshBluebird]

Never seen this at all, and have been using Win 7 since the public beta was released. Though granted, I have only used the two publicly released builds (beta and rc)

[vask]

Why are you guys hovering over icons on your taskbar if you are not going to do anything other then stop hovering over them?

I?m am going to take a wild guess and say 99,9% of windows 7 users will ever notice this bug without being told about it and they trying to reproduce it

In fact, this bug can cause quite a bit of confusion to regular users. When the highlight sticks and does not disappear and you have some programs open and others not, you end up with 3 permanent states for the icons (when you should only have 2, ie. open/closed). So instead of having to distinguish between open program icon and regular icon you now get some weird highlighed icon that just stays there.

[beatmztr]

In fact, this bug can cause quite a bit of confusion to regular users. When the highlight sticks and does not disappear and you have some programs open and others not, you end up with 3 permanent states for the icons (when you should only have 2, ie. open/closed). So instead of having to distinguish between open program icon and regular icon you now get some weird highlighed icon that just stays there.

My point being that this bug happens when you hover over an icon and then leave it with out doing something, that never happens, you hover over it to do something (open,close, checkt status etc.)

[Mike]

My point being that this bug happens when you hover over an icon and then leave it with out doing something, that never happens, you hover over it to do something (open,close, checkt status etc.)

No... the bug happens randomly, you launch something from the taskbar, and then move the mouse away but the taskbar will randomly think the mouse is still hovering over the taskbar and have the relevant 'mouse over' effect on one of the taskbar items.

[RvXtm]

The bug is when the hover ( j. edgar hoover ) semi bulb appeares even if the icon is not under mouse hovering that moment. It happened to me too ,but after a restart , it was ok . I did not see the problem on build 7260-xx64 - 7600 . it was on the post RC builds